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Published in: 50.50Performing masculinity: the football ultras in post-revolutionary EgyptThe displays of masculine assertiveness by the football ultras in Egypt and their strongly gendered form of youth...
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Published in: 50.50Shame and honour re-appropriated: women finding their voicesOn February 12, 2013, women of the Middle East, in the region and in the Diaspora, officially and publicly...
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Published in: 50.50Tearing Egypt apart
The eruption of protests, violence and civil disobedience in Egypt this month is a replay of the scene in 2011...
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Published in: 50.50Fear and fury: women and post-revolutionary violencePutting episodes of post-Arab spring violence against women down to a routine manifestation of patriarchy and its...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt: the Islamization of state policy
Fears that Egypt’s constitution will be used to inhibit freedoms and enhance the powers of the Islamists in power...
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Published in: 50.50Rebuilding Somalia
The appointment of two Somali women in key ministerial posts must not mask the massive day to day persecution of...
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Published in: 50.50A problematic discourse: who speaks for Arab women?
Placed between the First Lady and the Diplomat at the recent Trust Women conference on the 'Arab spring', Ala'a...
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Published in: 50.50Diary of a constitutional crisis
Just over a week before my scheduled arrival in Cairo to research the constitution-drafting process, President Morsi...
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Published in: 50.50Egypt speaks to an international audience
Collusion and confusion: Hania Sholkamy asks whether the international community will meet the challenge of...
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Published in: 50.50State complicity in the sexual abuse of women in CairoThere is a growing belief that the post-revolution spate of sexual attacks on women is a reflection of a large-scale...
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Published in: 50.50Forced marriage to rapists: the death of Amina El Filali
For years, human rights and women's organizations have been demanding reform of Article 475 of the Moroccan Penal...
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Published in: 50.50A long road ahead for Yemeni womenWomen led many of the protests, and were vital in the sustainability of the movement during the Yemeni revolution,...
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Published in: 50.50Who is to blame? Street sexual harassment in Yemen
We need an unambiguous law which punish harassers and not the victims, says Ghaidaa Al-Absi.
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Published in: 50.50Revolution is female: the uprising of women in the Arab worldThe Arabic word for revolution, thawra, has a female gender. So does the word ’huriya (freedom), and so does the...
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Published in: 50.50A Revolutionary woman
A poem by Marwa Sharafeldin. Part of a series of poems by African feminist writers for 16 Days of Activism against...
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Published in: 50.50Myopic Morsi and oblivious Obama: counting the costs of autocracy
President Morsi’s ill-advised and badly executed attempts to concentrate power in his hands will exact high moral,...
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Published in: 50.50Can a story save a life? Women and the Arab uprisingsAs Tahrir Square fills up again and the Arab uprisings continue, the power of words and the battle over who owns...
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Published in: 50.50The perilous slide: towards an Islamist dictatorship in Egypt?
President Morsi’s latest constitutional declaration, even if it is cloaked in democratic and revolutionary rhetoric,...
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Published in: 50.50Feminist voices in Islam: promise and potential
Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been...
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Published in: 50.50State feminism in Tunisia: reading between the linesThe Tunisian experience with state feminism is a model to draw lessons from, especially for the Arab-Muslim...
